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S. SHOUP. CHECK SALES OR ORDER BOOK.

No. 559,622. Patented May 5, 1896.

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S. SHOUP. CHECK SALES 0R ORDER BOOK.

No. 559,622. Patented May 5, 1896.

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SAMUEL $I-IOUP, OF ALDAN, PENNSYLVANIA.

CHECK SALES OR ORDER BOOK.

SBECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 559,622, dated May 5, 1896.

Application filed July 3, 1896. Serial No. 554,857. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, SAMUEL SHOUP, a citi' zen of the United States, and a resident of Aldan, Delaware county, Pennsylvania, have invented Improvements in Check Sales or Order Books, of which the following is a specification.

My invention consists of certain improvements, more fully described hereinafter, in the construction of check sales-books or other such books, and more particularly books of the construction for which I have obtained Letters Patent No. 4539,0443, dated June 6,1893 that is, check sales or other such books in which there is a movable tally or record sheet superimposed upon the leaves of the book, in combination with manifolding means to duplicate the tally or record sheet entries upon the leaves of the book.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a perspective view showing my new form of check sales-book open and with the top fold of the first leaf raised for the insertion of the manifolding-leaf and the tally-sheet thrown back. 2 is a perspective view of such a book with the leaves and superimposed tally or record sheet in position for the making of the entries. Fig. 3 is a perspective view illustrating the manner of arranging or combining the tally or record sheet with the holder, and Fig. 4: is a perspective view illustrating a modified detail.

In the drawings I have shown my check sales or order book as strictly in the form of a book, with the folded sales-slip leaves A between covers B B B B"; but I wish it to be understood that my invention may be carried into eifect in other forms. In the construc tion shown in Fig. 1 the flap b of the cover, which is to lie over the face of the pad of salesslip leaves when the book is closed, is shown as provided with an extra flap 1) and tongue 0' to extend around the back of the cover to give a pocket-book form to the whole device. In Figs. 3 and 3 a cover B is shown without this extra flap.

The check sales-leaves A are each made with a single fold at the bottom at and scored or perforated at the two points m y to give three sections or coupons a a CF. The two sections a and a are intended to be of about the same size, so that when a is folded down over a the face of the third section or coupon at will be uncovered. The manifolding-sheet M, which is carried by a flexible flap F on the cover or holder extending over the top edge of the pad of entry-leaves, is to be laid over the coupon or sections a a and under the fold a. The folded leaves of the book may be se cured together by any suitable binding means, and the pad of leaves may be secured to the cover or holder in any suitable way. I may secure the manifolding-sheet to the free end of the flap F by some adhesive, as illustrated in Fig. l, orin the manner illustrated in Fig. l-that is, by notching' the end of the sheet M at m m or otherwise forming shoulders m m and providing in the flap F a slit f of such length that when the shouldered end of the sheet M has been put through the slit by temporarily folding over one or both of the shoulders m the latter will prevent the sheet from being pulled out with ordinary usage.

In combining with the described construction of sales or order book my superimposed tally or record sheet above alluded to I dispense with the use of rollers such described in my Patent No. 499,0l6, and so construct the holder or cover of the book as that the main body of the tally-sheet can be laid and held in something in the nature of a pocket at the back of the holder or cover and drawn out over one edge, so that any part of the tallysheet may be superimposed upon the leaves and so combined with the manifoldingsheet that entries made upon the tally or record sheet will be manifolded onto the leaves of the sales or order book. For this purpose I prefer to make the holder or cover of the book in folds, between which the tally or record sheet may be held as in a pocketas, for in.- stance, as illustrated in Fig. 3. As there shown, the cover has three folds, that numbered 1 forming the foundation, to which the pad of leaves is attached by any suitable means, while fold numbered 2, hinged to one edge of fold numbered 1, will form an outside cover for the latter. Fold numbered 3 forms the cover for the face of the leaves of the book. The tally or record sheet D is in this case held in between the folds Nos. 1 and 2 of the cover, with one end extending out and adapted to be drawn over the edge of the pad of leaves onto the face of the check-slips. As illustrated in Fig. 2, I have shown the tally or record sheet as adapted to be drawn around the top edge of the pad, and the slips and sheet are so printed that entries made on the tally or record sheet Will be manifolded onto the coupon a As the suecessivelynumbered spaces upon the tally or record sheet are filled in with the amounts of successive sales or orders the sheet is drawn farther out, as will be readily understood. If desired, the back of the fold No. 1 of the holder or cover may be provided with clips or straps O, as illustrated in Fig. 3, to guide and hold the tally or record sheet.

I claim as my invention- A check sales or other such book carrying a SAMUEL SHOUP.

\Vitnesses A. HAMILTON REAVEY, IIUBERT HoWsoN. 

